Posts Tagged with ‘Sony’

Qtrax had some “big” news today; they renewed their existing licenses with EMI Music Publishing and Sony/ATV. When I read the news, I went looking for a press release on their site and couldn't find a thing. I'm guessing at this point, Qtrax just wants to launch, and any intermediate steps between their current status and launch are just reminders of how badly their one botched attempt went.
The new-”ish” deal doesn't really help Qtrax in their quest to get up [...]

Trailing behind it main rival WalMart and such online stores as Amazon, Target announced that it is finally going to offer digital music downloads. Even bargain basement retailer KMart had music downloads before Target jumped on board, though they lost their dedicated music site in their bankruptcy a few years ago.
Target's digital music rollout begins with the first album, a Sony BMG release called Live From Philadelphia by John Legend. Target has not stated whether it will offer a [...]

Confirmed: Apple has dropped iTunes Plus track prices to $0.99.
Word has it that Apple?s planning to cease its systematic gouging of its customers as far as music sales go. Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica claimed yesterday evening to receive advanced notice from a source close to Cupertino?s super-secretive avenue, Infinite Loop, that those buying single iTunes Plus tracks now (and the last hundred or so yesterdays) would soon find prices affixed to the online store?s DRM [...]

The online music service known as iLike owes much of its recent success to social networking service Facebook, which developers at iLike developed an app for shortly after the launch of the Facebook Platform.
Now, iLike wants to make integration between Facebook and its service as easy and effortless as possible for the musicians who mantain profiles. The new Artist Services Platform provides music artists with one artist page to maintain across both iLike & Facebook and claims to make it [...]

Sony’s once sterling reputation has in recent years caked on quite a bit of mud. It’s dealt with a backlash from consumers over underhanded rootkit installations made to consumers’ PCs. It’s seen its Walkman heritage fade every so painfully to become what many would agree is now, when juxtaposed against the all-powerful iPod-iTunes duopoly, just another second-class. And just last week the company announced that it is shelving the ATRAC file format it stubbornly held onto since as far [...]

MySpace recently announced that it will be teaming up with the FOX television network and the Producers Guild of America to find television pilots. The “Storyteller Challenge,” beginning September 4, will be a contest in which MySpace will ask for 5-to 7-minute television pilots to be submitted and voted on by the other users of the site. Two winners will then be chosen and rewarded with a $25,000 prize, as well as the possibility of a development deal with [...]

The music industry is in trouble. Its titans complain about the continuous decrease in CD sales. And while in previous years the big houses (and the little ones they held within) were the only logical recipients for solo artists and musical groups and acts (think boy bands and the like), today many percussionists, string magicians, vocalists, and pianists and keyboardists, together or apart, are choosing to “go their own way.”
The horror stories about the selling of souls for little more [...]

Sometimes I feel like the official reporter of Internet TV leader Joost because their news always seems to gravitate in my direction. Today Joost announced former Cisco Systems executive and expert deal maker Mike Volpi as their CEO.
Volpi was the senior VP and General Manager of Cisco's routing and service provider group, and he helped acquire more than 70 companies for the Cisco system during his tenure there. Volpi will replace founding CEO Fredrik de Wahl and will assume the helm of Joost [...]

We’ve sure you’ve seen the signs. Search for a music video by name or artists on YouTube; find what you’re looking for in the results. Click. Only then you discovered on the following page a red box mentioning something or other about copyright infringement, and that the clip was no longer available for playback. Bummer.
Up to now, that’s been the case when it came to EMI-specific content. (Warner, Universal, and Sony all signed deals with YouTube permitting uploads and [...]